Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
Laurence J. Peter

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Laurence J. Peter

Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
Laurence J. Peter

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
Laurence J. Peter

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Laurence J. Peter

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
Laurence J. Peter

If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Laurence J. Peter

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Laurence J. Peter

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
Laurence J. Peter

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
Laurence J. Peter

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
Laurence J. Peter

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
Laurence J. Peter

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
Laurence J. Peter

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
Laurence J. Peter